The National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) BioMEMS Resource Center is part of the Center for Engineering in Medicine, Massachusetts General hospital and Harvard Teaching Hospitals.

The academic partners of the NIH BioMEMS Resource Center are:

• The Massachusetts General Hospital
(MGH)

• The Center for Engineering in Medicine (CEM)
• Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology


• Microsystems Technology Laboratories (MTL), MIT
  

1. the demonstration to the world of painless surgery using anesthesia
2. the first X-ray in the US
3. the initial design and implementation of the heart-lung machine and intra-aortic pump
4. the first successful implantation of a severed human limb
5. the long-term storage of blood
6. the development of PET scanning
7. the development of artificial skin for burn treatment

Center for Engineering in Medicine

The unique combination of basic biomedical sciences together with engineering and physical science principles offers the intersection of many powerful techniques and tools to solve today's pressing medical problems. The Harvard Medical School (HMS), and especially the Harvard Teaching Hospitals have long contributed significantly to the development of the discipline of biomedical engineering.

Established in 1995 at the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), the CEM looks toward:

1. forming a structured framework for cooperative research and educational activities of bioengineers at the interface of engineering and medicine
2. providing outstanding training opportunities in bioengineering and quantitative sciences to physicians, engineers, and scientists at all academic levels
3. building a mechanism for the advancement of the discipline of bioengineering and its practitioners within the Harvard community and beyond

Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology

The Harvard-MIT Division of Health Science and Technology (HST), established in 1970, is dedicated to integrating medicine, science, and engineering into an educational program that carries these disciplines from the laboratory bench to the patient's bedside, and, conversely, brings clinical insights from the patient's bedside to the laboratory bench. Recognized as a pioneer in interdisciplinary education and research, HST is designed to educate outstanding minds, to cultivate leaders, to create knowledge, and to generate cost-effective preventive, diagnostic and therapeutic innovations.

HST's educational and research programs are committed to:

1. Exploring the fundamental principles underlying diseases
2. Discovering new pharmaceuticals and devices to ameliorate human suffering
3. Training the next generation of physicians, scientists, and engineers to do the same

MIT Microsystems Technology Laboratories

The Microsystems Technology Laboratories (MTL) at MIT is an interdepartmental laboratory supporting research and education in micro- and nano- systems. MTL was established in the mid-1980s inside the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department. Over the years, MTL has evolved and grown into an Interdepartmental laboratory reporting to the Dean of the School of Engineering, reaching across the entire Institute. MTL’s mission encompasses research and education with an intellectual core of:

1. Semiconductor Process and Device Technology
2. Integrated Circuits and Systems Design
3. Fostering new initiatives in Microsystems at the Institute
4. Providing Microsystems infrastructure to research groups across the Institute